Hi Folks, I have a question about diary fields and how they work in the Mid-tier. They seem to work differently than they do in the Windows client.
In the Windows client, I am able to enter any number of lines into the field, both when the field is collapsed or when it is expanded. In the Mid-tier, I am limited to entering only as many lines as the number of rows specified in in the properties for the diary field as specified using Dev Studio. For example, If the diary field is specified with three rows, and I type directly into the diary field (without expanding it first) like this: 1 2 3 4 5 I end up with: 1 2 345 If I save it and then expand the diary, This is what was saved: 1 2 345 If I expand the diary field and type the following: 1 2 3 4 5 and then collapse it, save it, then refresh the record and expand the diary field, the last entry will look like this: 1 2 3 In the Windows client, it will take whatever you enter, expanded or collapsed and save it every time, regardless of the number of rows specified in the field properties. The only way that I have found to get the Mid-tier to take an entry that is longer than the number of rows specified in the field properties is as follows: Type something into the diary field just to get the Save button enabled. Expand the diary field. Type in multiple lines, as many as you want. Save the record while the diary field is still expanded. The diary field will be saved correctly. Also, unlike the Windows client, the Mid-tier does not clear the lower portion of the diary field after the record has been saved. Is this just my system, or is this the way that diary fields work in the Mid-tier? I have tried this on Safari, Firefox and Chrome on multiple Macs and PCs. They all behave exactly the same way. The only browser that works the way that the Windows client works is IE on Windows. I have scoured the BMC documentation and I have not found anything to make me think that this is expected behavior on Mid-tier. ARS 7.6.03 on Solaris Mid-tier 7.6.04 Oracle 11.2.0.2.0 Thanks for reading this far. Larry _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
